``The Da Vinci Code'' by Dan Brown is astonishingly popular nowadays, and its commercial success cannot be explained away by stating that it was the result of a cleverly organized advertising campaign. There must be some features of plot and style in the novel that endear it to so many readers and which... (More)

This collection of essays consists of three parts each of which deals with one of the aspects in the problematic of globalization and its influence on the cultural imaginary and fiction, the subjectivity of an intellectual and the shaping of aesthetics. In the first part the attention focuses on the... (More)